Men's Soccer Defeats Sacred Heart, 1-0

Oct 18, 2009

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Junior Pierre Soubrier (Aurignac, France) scored
the lone goal of the game to give the Quinnipiac University men's
soccer team a 1-0 win at Sacred Heart Sunday afternoon. The Bobcats
are now 4-0-1 in Northeast Conference play with the win, while
7-1-5 overall. The Pioneers drops to 3-2-1 in conference play,
three points back of Quinnipiac. The Bobcats are now tied with No.
8 Monmouth for first place in the NEC with 13 points.

After a foul on Sacred Heart in the 18-yard box, Soubrier lined up
to take the Bobcats' penalty kick. The junior defender's shot found
its way to left side of the net past Sacred Heart goalkeeper Alex
Fait who had guessed the shot would go to the right portion of the
goal. Soubrier is now second on the team with three goals this
season, two coming on penalty kicks.

"Whenever you go on the road the goal is to get as many points as
possible," said head coach Eric Da Costa. "To go out on the road in
miserable conditions both days and win is great. We are extremely
pleased to get six points this weekend."

The Pioneers controlled the offensive tempo during the first half,
putting five shots on goal to the Bobcats' two. Senior goalkeeper
Freddy Hall (St. Bermuda) stopped all five and two more in the
second half for seven in the game.

Hall's seven shutouts this season match his entire total from last
season. He has now gone the last 226 minutes without allowing a
goal from the opposition.

"Pierre (Soubrier), Matthew Rothbart (Cheshire, Conn.), Tolle
Staffason (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Conor Murphy (Wallingford,
Conn.) played well today," Da Costa added. "They kept the ball in
front of them and forced Sacred Heart to take shots from the
outside. Freddy (Hall) made the saves he needed to win and held on
to the ball in slippery conditions."

After scoring the game-winning goal in the 90th minute against
Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday night, freshman Philip Suprise
(Milwaukee, Wis.) led the Bobcats with two shots on goal against
the Pioneers.

Quinnipiac next plays on Friday, Oct. 23 as it plays host to Long
Island. The Bobcats and Blackbirds are set to begin at 3 p.m., from
the Quinnipiac Soccer Field in Hamden.